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Personalized pricing benefits consumers when markets function well
Depending on how and where it is employed, personalized pricing has the potential to enhance competition and consumer welfare.
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Massachusetts Ballot Question 8 seeks to reverse marijuana legalization
Question 8 on the state’s Nov. 3 ballot would repeal provisions of the 2016 cannabis legalization, ending legal adult-use sales and criminalizing home grows.
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Property tax cuts must come with government spending cuts
As states pursue property tax relief, policymakers must confront how local governments will fund services with less revenue.
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Colorado Proposition 132’s proposed drastic penalties for fentanyl: A dangerous overreaction
Colorado Proposition 132 is unlikely to reduce addiction or prevent overdoses, but would criminalize more people and amp up punitive, muscular sentencing.
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Webinar: How state and local finances have changed since 2020
The past five years have been unusually volatile for state and local finances.
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RFK Jr. is right to expand consumer access to peptides
Allowing pharmacies to compound experimental peptides would give consumers a more accountable alternative to unregulated sellers.
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The Jones Act is suppressing demand for American shipping
The current waiver has opened new routes and boosted fuel shipments to Puerto Rico. Congress should create a permanent waiver process for cargoes no U.S. vessel can carry.
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Accept treatment or lose access: Ontario’s new opioid rules undermine harm reduction
Restricting access to pharmaceutical opioids risks driving patients back to the dangerous illicit market these programs seek to help them avoid.
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A new generation of the same old nicotine policy mistakes
Ultimately, generational nicotine bans undermine adult freedom and ignore prohibition's failures.
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The successes and failures of New York City’s cordon pricing
The evidence to date suggests that congestion pricing has reduced vehicle entries and improved travel speeds in and around Manhattan’s central business district.
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How to improve public schools and give tens of millions of families school choice
If policymakers and education reformers want to give families real school choice, they should let students attend any public school with an open seat.
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States that suspend the gas tax provide drivers with little savings but cause real harm to highway systems
Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, and Ohio are among the states that have either suspended state gas taxes or paused planned increases to their fuel taxes.
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Abolish the Surgeon General’s office and its 6,000-person bureaucracy
The federal government needs public health professionals, not a separate uniformed bureaucracy to employ them.
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California Gov. Newsom’s veto saves taxpayers billions, preserves previous pension reforms
Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected AB 1383, which would've increased pension benefits for police and firefighters at a high cost to taxpayers.
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Bang for the buck: Bus systems should prioritize serving transit-dependent riders
With limited resources and unmet needs, transit agencies need to become more creative in their service.
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Kratom use by students does not mean kratom caused deaths at Ole Miss
Outlawing more products will not prevent deaths like those at Ole Miss. But regulating them and enforcing those rules might.
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How local governments force short-term rental platforms to turn over user data
State lawmakers should act to make clear that online platforms are not supplements to aid in the administration of overly burdensome local requirements.
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Rent-setting algorithms require targeted regulation, not new laws
Fragmented, vague legislation creates unnecessary risk and uncertainty about how platforms and users can operate without triggering legal penalties.
